Means for fastening lids of packing-cases.



E. A. MATTHIAS.- MEANS PoR PASTBNING LIDS or PAGKING GASES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5, 1910.

Y' Patented Dec. 17,1912.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co.. WASHINGTON. D. cA

uNiTED STATES rATENTi-oEEioE.

EDWARD ALEXANDER MATTHIAS, E LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.

MEANS FOR FASTENING LIDS OF PACKINGfCASES. n f 'i 'Application led February 5, 1910. f Serial No. 542,201.

Specification of I ietters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1912.

' To all whom 'it may concer/n:

` Be it known that I, EDWARD ALEXANDER MATTHIAS, a' subject ofthe King of Great Britain, and resident of Liverpool, Eng* land, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Fastening the Lids ofl Packing-Cases, of which the following is a specification. i

This invention relates to improvements in that type of packing case which is adapted to be closed by means of a detachable lid p which may be readily removedy or reinserted without the necessity of nailing or similar modes of fastening liable to destroy t-hel structure of the case in course of time.

The'features of the present invention consist in providing the ends of the case with overhanging bands or the like of'different widths, and in fitting the lid with a spring locking plate whereby the Vlid may be inserted beneath the bands orl the like by means of a to and fromy longitudinal movenient and then secured init-s engaged position by the spring looking plate, means being alsoA provided forsealing the locking plate. c

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

lFigure l. is a longitudinal vertical sectionl of a packing case constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2. is a plan. Figs. 3. and 4. are fragmentary perspective views y ron a larger scale of the locking plate end of the packing case, Fig. 3. showing the locking plate about toengage the end of the case and Fig. 4. showing the position of the plate when the lidv is quite shut. Fig.` 5. is a fragmentary detail in' vertical section showing the locking plate in its secured position and wired and sealed. n

fThe boX or packing case 1 is provided vwiththe detachable lid 2, which is supported, as shown in-Figs. .1. and2. upon the top edges of the side walls 20 and the top edges of the inner endwalls 3 ofthe case. If a mid partition is fitted, as indicated, this also serves to support the lid. v The outer end walls 6 of the case are completely surround# ed by rear and front bands 4 and 5, respec* tively, which overhang ,the top edges of the innervwalls 3 so as to form upper pockets 19 therewith, .which pockets serve toy receive the ends of the lid 2. The rear band 4 overhangs to a greater extentthan the band 5 for a purpose to be hereinafter explained.

Byk suchvan arrangement, after the lid has been yinserted far enough under the band 4 until its front edgefmay be dropped down past the inner edge of the front band 5- the total length of the lid being so arranged as to permit of thisaction-it is yslightly retracted so as to pass beneath the frontband 5 until the end of the lid abuts against the frontwall y6,`in which position the lid will` now also' rest upon the upper edge of the -front Vinner wall 8, as shown in Fig. 1. The

band 4 is made suiiiciently wide so that when in this position thev rear edge of thelid stillhoused beneaththe'band 4. A spring locking plate 7 .is secured to thelid, say,`

beneath one of the cross battens as indi-y cated, the rear endv 7 a being upturned against'. i

the end of the batten, and half the'vfront end of the plate being turneddown to form a lip as indicated at 7b. As the lid 2 is being retracted in the-direction of the arrow Fig. 3. so as to engage beneath the band 5, the

lip 7b rides on the band, and when the lid A wire 10, or the like locking means, is now f threadedY through the holes 8, 9, vand 9a, and i its free ends then stranded so asto vtighten the wire andy hold the plate down, Figs-1, k2, and 5. The wire may be utilized to secure to the boX an address label, and it may, after stranding, be sealed by a lead seal 1l compresed over the stranded wire, organ -adhe- .sive paper seal 12 may be affixed over the plate 7 ,the case ybeing then secure against being tampered with unless the seal is first broken.

I claim :V f In a packing case in combination; a case;

ioo i overhanging bands surrounding both ends like threaded through both perforations and of the case; a lid adapted to be entered bel then sealed7 substantially as described. 1o neath the hands by means of a to and fro In Vtestimony whereof I afiX my Signalongitudinal movement; a spring locking ture in presence of two Witnesses.

' plate on the lid; a perforation in the looking EDWARD ALEXANDER MATTHIAS.

plate and a perforation in one of the bands, Vitnesses: said perforations registering When the lid A. J. DAVIES, is in its engaged position; and a Wire or the H. COOKE.

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